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Don’t trust the network. Don’t trust the network. There are no guarantees on the internet that your packets will arrive intact and in order. That’s why we have
by woah 9y ago
Don’t trust the network. Don’t trust the network.
There are no guarantees on the internet that your packets will arrive intact and in order. That’s why we have tcp. What the ISP is doing may be sleazy, but it’s not violating some principle of computing.
- cesarb 9y agoThere's a difference between accidental reordering/dropping/corruption of packets, and malicious interference by middleboxes. The TCP mechanisms can deal with the former, but the latter can fake all the necessary sequence numbers and checksums.